OFFICIAL Best of WAYWT/Favorite fits - Page 32

the fit should be exceptional to be in the best of page. i saw like....maybe four exceptional fits on the previous page, and i'm being generous. honestly, why would a well-fitting, but utterly plebeian fit be considered one of the best? there should be at least a minimum requirement to be immortalized in this thread. there's no need to circle jerk the popular posters. they can have bad fits too.

just gonna toot my own horn and say my last thing with the hat and Folk shirt is the coolest thing I've ever posted here

edit: creepy dog massage excluded

i feel like there are plenty of posters that have a large handful of fits that would qualify for "best of" status without treading into high-fashion territory.
see: mellow, parker, pinkpantser, for example.

that's not what i'm saying, but there should be something outstanding about the fit. for example, how did steve jobs get a place here (sorry to call you out, but it's very memorable for being unmemorable, as you might imagine)? it's a black turtleneck with worn denim. there's absolutely nothing special about it besides the fact that it fits well. those kinds of fits shouldn't be posted here. It also cheapens the REALLY good fits of the consistently well-dressed if every single one of their fits get posted here. there are...also a good number of fits that should not even have made it to the cutting board...
Edited by nahneun - 5/23/12 at 12:12pm

People can curate for themselves. The quality is high enough here IMO that it's not too difficult to scroll down to find a fit that is exceptional.

I think Lel's picks are fine.  I didn't agree with maybe 5-10% of them but I think that boils down more to taste than quality.

that defeats the purpose of a best of. then it's the official good fits thread. there's a noticeable difference between a good fit and an exceptional fit.

 

Best of doesn't really denote 'exceptional,' in practice this is the 'good fits' thread.  If you go through the real WAYWT thread, 80% of it is chatter and 20% fits, half of which (if that?) are 'good,' so imo a good fits thread serves a useful purpose. If you want a true Hall of Fame someone (a mod) would have to curate it, like on SZ.

 

This thread has died in the past for months at a time, I'd rather have the occasional unexceptional fit than a nonexistent thread.  I'm not really opposed to having a Hall of Fame at all but the setup would have to be different, I think.

how does best of not denote exceptional? if you're exceptional among a legion of shitty fits, it's still the "best" of those because it's exceptional in comparison to the rest. there is a good number of sfers who are not aesthetically challenged, so we shouldn't be setting the bar so low for what we consider the best. we have a few EXCEPTIONAL fits, a fair number of REALLY good fits, a lot more GOOD fits, and the rest are forgettable or terrible. i think this thread should be showcasing all the EXCEPTIONAL fits and a few of the REALLY good fits (because this can be the subjective), not every single sf approved fit. if every single decent fit is going to make it into this thread, then i call for a thread name change then, because there are too many pics that shouldn't even be considered best in the waywt thread. the bar is set way too low right now. think of a standard bell curve. only stuff two devs above should be here. maybe a few 1.5s.

okay fine, i just picked nobd because he turned out to be steve jobs in disguise (are you down home chillin with tupac?). let's say robin then. what about that makes it a best of waywt fit? and i'd like to emphasize that this is the BEST of waywt thread, not GOOD waywt fits thread.

this discussion is watering this thread down way more than a few "good but not great" fits.